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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
26 July 2016
Summary
A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks Indian, yet she is somehow not. The sudden violence of what happens next leaves the other passengers gasping.
The train terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the sea. Here, among pilgrims, priests and ashrams, three old women disembark only to encounter the girl once again. What is someone like her doing in this remote corner, which attracts only worshippers?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848666900 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184866690X |
| Author: | Anuradha Roy |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 26 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
A magnificently crafted, luminous tale … Sleeping on Jupiter is not just an important read, but an essential one– Chelsea Leigh Home , Washington Indepedent.
Poetic and evocative, Roy’s writing is a joy. - Financial Times.
Roy’s prose does not hit a single wrong note: its restrained beauty sings off the page. - Time Magazine.Restrained and devastating Sleeping on Jupiter… balances formal neatness with raw political invective about the treatment of women in India - Daily TelegraphRoy has used the most potent weapon in a writer’s arsenal - the form of the novel, with its ability to simultaneously be universal and particular - to boldly unmask the hidden face of Indian spirituality and the rampant sexual abuse in its unholy confines. - Guardian.There’s been a recent call to action against sexual assault in India as rape cases have begun to make international headlines rather than just being accepted as part of everyday female experience in the country. In focusing on this perpetration of violence against women and children, Roy’s book is both incredibly timely and extremely brave. - The National.Unshowy perceptiveness with which it addresses big themes such as religious hypocrisy and violence towards women in Indian society - GuardianAnuradha Roy is a wonderful writer. - Sunday Express.The themes of innocence stolen, the refuge of the imagination, and the inclination to look away are handled with sensitivity and subtlety in some of the best prose of recent years encountered by this reader. Roy brings a painterly eye, her choice of detail bringing scenes to sensual life, while eschewing floridness: a masterclass rather in the art of restraint, the pared-back style enabling violence close to the surface to glint of its own accord … An important contribution to an essential debate, Anuradha Roy’s poetic work of luminous prose deserves a wide readership in India and beyond. - Independent.About The Author
Anuradha Roy
Anuradha Roy’s novel Sleeping on Jupiter was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016 and won the D.S.C. prize for South Asian Literature. She won the Economist Crossword Prize, India’s premier award for fiction, for her novel The Folded Earth, which was nominated for several other prizes including the Man Asia, the D.S.C., and the Hindu Literary Award. Her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, has been widely translated and was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and The Seattle Times.
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